Some garden owners in the Scottish town of Kincraig must have been surprised when a monkey suddenly wandered through their yard. The Japanese macaque escaped from a zoo this weekend and was spotted a few kilometers away.
A team of experienced zookeepers from our charity are combing the village today to locate and return the macaque that escaped yesterday,” said Darren McGarry from the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which manages the Highland Wildlife Park.
Birdseed was eaten and then moved to the neighbor
The monkey is unlikely to pose a danger to people or pets, but you should not approach it. A local resident filmed the animal in his garden. Carl Nagle told the BBC that he had just spent a lazy morning when he read about the escaped monkey in a local Facebook group. “I looked out the window – and there he was, proud as Oscar, standing by the fence, eating nuts that had fallen from a bird feeder.”
The monkey was hanging out there and eventually climbed onto the birdhouse and tried to get in. “He gave it his all, he worked harder than a squirrel,” Nagle said. Eventually he moved next door.
Monkeys bathe in hot springs
The zoo keeps “a large group” of Japanese macaques, also known as snow monkeys. The specimens from Yamanouchi in the Japanese prefecture of Nagano are world famous. The wild snow monkeys come from the mountains every year in the winter months to bathe in the hot springs.
Source: Krone
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